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Today's Topics:
1. Fri MOrn Dx (Charles B)
2. African Logs ([email protected])
3. Documental recuerda el sonido de ?Escucha Chile?
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
4. Glenn Hauser logs September 17-18, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Fri eve DX (Charles B)
6. Sept 18 Logs ([email protected])
7. Glenn Hauser logs September 18, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:01:09 -0400
From: "Charles B" <[email protected]>
To: "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>, "Bob Wilkner"
<[email protected]>, "Charles B" <[email protected]>, "dxld
dxld"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>,
"hard-core-dx hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "shortwaveworld shortwaveworld"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fri MOrn Dx
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Bolivia, 6155.24, Radio Fides, 1035-1100, With the usual weak signal, notice a
female conversing with a male in Spanish. Although there was no interference,
the signal was still too poor to hear what the conversation concerned. At
1046, noted canned promos or ADs. I recall that a few years ago, this station
was a lot easier to hear compared to how well I can hear it today. Ofcourse I
am listening from a different place with a different receiver which may be part
of the problem? If I had to choose between the receiver and the place,
responsible for the poor reception, I'd have to say the place is the reason. It
gets very frustrating after awhile. Whenever I tune in a station with the same
characteristic as this, not being able to hear what the individuals are saying,
it's like listening to a song where the singer is not singing the words of the
song instead he's just humming the tune. Consequently, I don't know what the
song concerns. Hopefully conditions will start !
to improve next month? Radio Fides had just about disappeared by the top of
the hour. (Chuck Bolland, September 18, 2009)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:27:47 EDT
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] African Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nac, Bata, *0458-0520,
Sept 18, sign on with Afro-pop music. Spanish announcements.
Weak. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 6890, Radio Fana, *0255-0310, Sept 18, sign on with
IS. Opening ID announcements at 0300 & vernacular talk. Horn of
Africa music at 0305. // 6110 - both frequencies fair. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 7165.04v, Voice of Peace & Democracy, via Radio
Ethiopia transmitter, *0358-0431*, Sept 18, sign on with Horn of
Africa music. Opening ID announcements at 0400 & talk in listed
Tigrinya. Some Horn of Africa music. Fair but slowly drifted up to
7165.21 by sign off. This frequency is usually stable. Listed // 9560
not heard. Mon, Wed, Fri only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MADAGASCAR. 5009.94, RTV Malagasy, 0325-0355, Sept 18,
talk in listed Malagasy. Short breaks of instrumental music & local
Afro-pop music. Poor signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:14:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Documental recuerda el sonido de ?Escucha Chile?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Documental recuerda el sonido de ?Escucha Chile?
http://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20090916/pags/20090916190643.html
Miles de horas de transmisi?n hicieron del espacio radial, transmitido desde la
capital rusa, un hito hist?rico y el programa de radio m?s o?do en la
dictadura. Volodia Teitelboim y Jos? Miguel Varas fueron claves para su
continuidad, que ahora llega al cine.
Se escucha la voz de Volodia Teitelboim que sale de una radio a pilas de onda
corta con un cable de cobre como antena. El escritor habla del golpe militar
ocurrido hace un par de horas, de la muerte de Salvador Allende, de La Moneda
en llamas. Se lo imagina, su voz tiembla. Es la noche del 11 de septiembre de
1973. Se oye el inicio de la Canci?n Nacional. El bi?grafo de Pablo Neruda y
Vicente Huidobro volver? al d?a siguiente.
Teitelboim estaba en Europa y ?Escucha Chile? naci? en Radio Mosc? -la radio
estatal de la ex Uni?n Sovi?tica-, el d?a que Augusto Pinochet se tomaba el
pa?s.
El programa durar?a 17 a?os, y ser?a escuchado por miles de personas que
deseaban comunicarse con sus familiares, que quer?an saber c?mo el mundo
reaccionaba ante el desastre pol?tico local. El escritor Jos? Miguel Varas
lleg? a ser su director.
Millones de horas de transmisi?n que hicieron historia, y que ahora reviven en
un documental.
?Escucha Chile?, dirigido por Andr?s Daie, fue producido por O?doMedio y
Etnomedia Producciones, y ser? estrenado el 24 de septiembre (a las 20 horas)
en el Centro Arte Alameda. En la oportunidad se realizar? una conversaci?n
entre los periodistas Vicky Quevedo, Juan Pablo C?rdenas y Jos? Miguel Varas.
DATOS FIDEDIGNOS
El documental ?Escucha Chile? recoge las experiencias asociadas a la historia
del programa, el cual se o?a incluso en los centros de tortura como Isla
Dawson, que produjo fieles auditores clandestinos. Del programa, bautizado
?Habla Mosc?, escucha Chile?, se har?a cargo un grupo de chilenos exiliados,
entre otros, Eduardo Labarca, Pepe Secall y Rolando Carrasco.
Ellos recib?an y transmit?an la informaci?n de los chilenos que lograban
conseguir datos fidedignos de detenidos y de la situaci?n pol?tica del pa?s.
Pero no s?lo de denuncias viv?a el programa, tambi?n se logr? crear espacios
dedicados a la m?sica y la cultura a trav?s de diversos segmentos. En Chile y
en el mundo se pod?a escuchar el programa gracias a su transmisi?n en onda
corta, una se?al de baja frecuencia que viaja a niveles muy altos. Los
militares intentaron acallar las transmisiones, pero todas representaban un
elevado costo.
El documental relata una serie de historias, como la de Eduardo Mart?nez, quien
estuvo preso en el centro prisioneros pol?ticos Tres ?lamos, donde con un
sistema de antenas preparado por un grupo de prisioneros escuchaban el
programa. Tambi?n habla de su experiencia Miguel Lawner, quien recibi? una
llamada realizada desde los estudios de Radio Mosc? al campo de detenci?n de
Ritoque, donde se encontraba.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:28:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 17-18, 2009
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** ANTARCTICA. Couldn`t listen to World of Radio on WBCQ, which turned off 9330
just after it started at 1900 Sept 17; and 7415 just barely audible, so what to
do? Oh, I`ll listen to Antarctica instead. Tuned to 15476 at 1902 and there was
weakly audible music, signal fading up a bit including at 1904 when YL gave ID
mentioning LRA36 and also copied their 9401 postal code. Back to music;
1914-1919 longer talk segment; more talk at 1926 but too weak; 1933 another ID
and address; 1945 tuneout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. Whenever LRA36 is in on 15476, I check how its nearest neighbor
General Pacheco is doing downband and downlatitude. 15345v, RAE making big het
with RTM Morocco, and the het pitch wavering slightly, due to the ancient
unstable transmitter RAE uses, Sept 17 at 1922. Mixture of French from RAE and
Arabic from RTM. RAE has been perusaded to participate in HFCC, so will these
collisions finally become avoidable from B-09? RTM still does not (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ASIA [non]. 15350, Sept 18 at 1338, fair signal from self-assured preacher
in S Asian language, sounds like Malto to me ;-\ Axually, that`s per Aoki,
Gospel for Asia via Wertachtal, 250 kW, 90 degrees at 1330-1345 Malto on Thu &
Fri; Meitei on Mon/Tue/Wed; Kinnauri on Sun & Sat. Unfortunately, Malto is
missing from EiBi`s language list at
http://www.susi-und-strolch.de/eibi/readme.txt but maybe due to spelling
variations as in the case of the other two. The gospel huxters will never rest
until every conceivable minority language group gets preached at and given a
chance to ditch their original religion, or better yet, become rational (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, R. Austria Interrnational had not been heard for a few nights
around 0500 but assumed it was lack of propagation. Wolfgang B?schel reports
that the transmitter at Moosbrunn site was instead down for some maintenance.
But definitely back at 0530 Sept 18 in German, sufficient. I keep missing the
0508v M-F token news in English, still there? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 5778, approximate center of blob, big nasty extremely distorted FMy
spur Sept 18 at 0544, wailing preacher, surely David Miranda, and caught
mention of program name `A Voz da Liberta??o`. Still presumed to be badly
mistuned 6060 R. Tupi, Curitiba PR, or spur from that. Have yet to see any
other reports of this from NAm, but a regular here, and probably equally so
earlier in the evening if that be more convenient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 18 at 1313: 8400 fair, 9000 very poor (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC musical frequencies observation Sept 18 at 0531: Spanish on 6060,
6120 and 6140, probably JBA 6000, items on two major obsessions, h?roes and
b?isbol; while English was on 6010 only.
For the non-native speaker, I should explain once that ``musical frequencies``
really has nothing to do with music on them. The expression alludes to
``musical chairs``, a game in which a group of people walk around a set of
chairs while music is playing --- except there is one more person than chairs,
so when the music stops abruptly, they all rush to sit down, bumping hips, and
one of them gets no seat or lands on the floor. Thus the match between people
and chairs, or languages and frequencies is constantly changing and
unpredictable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9425, AIR IS at 1319 Sept 18, 1320 some chanting in unison, 1321
Hindi announcement with frequencies in kHz. Some other station interval signals
could be spruced up or exoticised by adding a drone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ simulcasting WORLD OF RADIO on 9330-CUSB last week was
apparently a fluke, perhaps unintentional runover of the 18-19 UT broadcast.
Sometime between 1900 and 1930 Sept 16 I noticed that 9330 was not on air; so
Sept 17 I tuned in at 1859. WOR did start up at 1900 but transmission cut off
halfway thru the opening theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI, 9955, testing NW antenna instead of SSE antenna, UT Friday Sept
18: at 0158 frequency seems vacant, no jamming either, altho WRMI had been
audible at *2359 Sept 17 in English. But at 0159 strong S9+20 carrier pops on,
and from 0201 YLs with Your World Your Way infomercial. I still have no idea
what they are selling, MEGO. Remained good at outset, but at 0302 recheck had
faded out completely, or rather below jamming level which had meanwhile
appeared even tho WRMI programming was not in Spanish and not anti-Castro! WRMI
is also running NW antenna UT Monday 0200-0400 for QSO with Ted Randall, and
testing UT Wed & Fri for Wire Light a.k.a. Cheetah Radio a.k.a. etc., etc.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 9900, Sept 18 at 1314-1315* VR IS, flutter, carrier remained
on a bit past 1315. Aoki shows this at 1230-1313 only, in Chinese via
Novosibirsk, RUSSIA, 111 degrees, i.e. right across China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. VOV, 6175 via Sackville, caught last few minutes of
transmission UT Fri Sept 18: 0523 in progress, Vietnamese language lesson
presented in English, even tho this is not during an English block --- so
people listening this hour already speak Vietnamese!! Seems to be a regular
aberration around this time, not sure on which days of week. At 0525, a useful
phrase one must have on the tip of one`s tongue in Vietnam was ``the rabbit`s
ear is inside the ink bottle`` --- perhaps some cultural background is
necessary to understand its deep significance. No discernible sign-off, but
0527 cut to usual VTC guitar music fill until 0529 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:34:56 -0400
From: "Charles B" <[email protected]>
To: "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>, "Bob Wilkner"
<[email protected]>, "Charles B" <[email protected]>, "dxld
dxld"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>,
"hard-core-dx hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "shortwaveworld shortwaveworld"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fri eve DX
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Nigeria, 7255, Voice of Nigeria, 2215-2300, Noted a male in Hause Language
comments with many mentions of "Nigeria" during the talk. Signal was good.
(Chuck Bolland,
September 18, 2009)
Croatia, 7375, Voice of Croatia, *2200-2230*, Tuned in late at 2223, but noted
a program of English language news and comments. Plenty of ID's and Schedule at
the end of the halfhour. Frequency mentioned were: 7375, 11675, 3985, 6165,
and 7355 to various target areas. All times were given in local time which I
missed. Signal was fair to good.
After the English language segment ended, a segment in Spanish was heard
starting at 2230. (Chuck Bolland, September 18, 2009)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:57:55 EDT
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Sept 18 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHAD. 7119.95, RNT, 1910-2001*, Sept 18, Presumed with
French talk. Instrumental music. African tribal drum music. Abrupt
sign off. Threshold signal at 1910 tune-in, improving to a weak but
readable level by 1925 but in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 6890, Radio Fana, 2040-2101*, Sept 18, Euro-pop
music. Vernacular talk. ID at 2101 & off. Weak. Slightly stronger on
// 6110. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MEXICO. 6010.00, Radio Mil, 0953-1005, Sept 18, Spanish talk.
Spanish ballads. Ads, promos. ID at 0957. Poor in noisy conditions.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:01:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 18, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 audible for second day at about same insufficient
level, but incomparably better than nothing. If only my line noise level would
abate! Sept 18 at 1902 with bits of music; still audible with more music at
recheck 2035 when no QRDRM was to be heard, so has Greenville finally ended its
test run without respect for the only SW station in Antarctica? Inconclusive,
as 15470-15480 was usually pretty weak here, unlike in targeted Europe (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BIAFRA [non]. 17520, Friday Sept 18 at 1859 JBA WHRI sign-on with Onward
Christian Soldiers, World Harvest Radio`s in-your-face,
we-will-convert-you-by-force-if-necessary theme tune invoking the Crusades,
presumably to be followed by VOBI for the second week on this reactivated
frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC check at 2050 Sept 18: all in Spanish on 13760, 11800-very
distorted and crackly, 11770, 11760, no English on 11760 as allegedly
scheduled, and listed // 17660 inaudible. At 2130 noticed that 13790 was also
on the air, in Spanish of course (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, Sept 18 at 2044 comparing to VON
15120 [see NIGERIA]: 15190 S9+18, gospel music louder than 15120, prayer in
African accent now undermodulated with rumble; 2045 greetings from another
preacher with American accent who did not identify himself, nor was there any
introduxion, which apparently he was expecting the affiliate to make, far
beyond the capabilities of this one. 2128 gospel music, very distorted now, as
Panamerican Broadcasting has no requirements at all for minimum technical
standards from its clients (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. RFI Spanish service, 17630 via GUIANA FRENCH, Sept 18 at 2059 music
already on, timesignal approx. 9 sex late! Timecheck as 11 pm, into news; so
apparently not on strike today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, VON, decent S9+15 signal twixt REE 15110 and WYFR 15130,
Sept 18 at 2042 YL with economic report in English; some hum ande modulation
level not commensurate with strength, but at least it was not distorted and
just about 100% readable. Already off at 2056 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. In a total failure of frequency management, both of REE`s
frequencies in French at 2000-2100 have collisions: Sept 18 at 2051 was getting
about equal levels on 11620 from REE in French, and AIR with Indian vocal music
during English broadcast. Per Aoki, Bengaluru switches at 2045 from 120 to 325
degrees as it changes from Hindi to English. 11620 is of course a very longtime
AIR channel, and if it were not for Spain in the way, would have been the best
one audible here.
9690, the other REE French channel, at 2053 was mixing with RRI closing English
broadcast from 2030, // 9765-colliding with Spain/Costa Rica, weakest 11810
with ACI from Spain/CR 11815, and best 11945 in clear. REE`s French broadcast
is fortunately M-F only, if it cannot be on clear frequencies. 9690 // 11620
confirmed as REE with ID and address at 2055 closing. These are aimed in the
second quadrant at North Africa and Mideast, while RRI is aimed NW toward UK
and NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ, 9330-CUSB, since WORLD OF RADIO was carried here last Friday in
addition to 7415, checked Sept 18 at 1900: infomercial cut to ID, cut to WOR
1478 opening, cut off after I said `8`, cut to another ID and off the air.
Meanwhile reception on weaker 7415 was somewhat better than it had been
previously for WOR (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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